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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Atheneum, 1979 Ex lib with usual markings and accoutrements & book store stamp, tape stains. Blue cloth boards with light wear to corners and spine top and tail, interior crisp and clean, attractive illustrations are brown and black watercolours. Endpapers are specialty (handmade?) brown paper. DJ is clipped and laminated, but in very good condition. Stated first edition.

Vancouver, B.C.: Raincoast Books, 2000 Near Fine First Printing Signed By The Author. Large Twelve Inch Quarto In Very Good Dust Jacket, Unclipped With Some Edge Wear To Top Front Edge. This Is Part Three Of The Chinese Legends Trilogy. David Bouchard Usually Works With First Nations Material. He Is Branching Out Here.

Montreal Quebec Canada: Goélette, 2010 A Fun Collection Of Quebec Folk Tales With Many Onomatopoeic Utterances (These Are In Red) Such As Cric! Crac! Croc! And Zzinzinzin! Many Lively Illustrations By Benoit Laverdiere And Stories Of Lutins And The Loup-Garou!! French Language. Soft Cover With French Flaps. Very Good Plus Condition, No Writing Or Marks.

An Atttractive Book In Very Good Crisp Condition, Illustrated By The Author, Agnes Nanogak, An Important Inuit Storyteller. Introduction By Robin Gedalof Mcgrath. Blue Boards, Gold Lettering, Red Endpapers. Dj Is Clipped And Has A One Inch Plus Long Closed Tear At Upper Back. Published by Hurtig in 1986 and apparent first.

New York: Bloch Publishing, 1960 This Is The 7Th Printing (1960) Of The 1945 Original. Author Dedicates To Her Former Pupils At The Cleveland Jewish Centre. Interior Is As New. Boards Are Very Good But Do Have Rubbing To Lower Corner And Spine Bottom And Top. Includes A Glossary Of Yiddish Words. Glossy Boards. See Scans.

Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 1984 Signed And Inscribed By Author Christie Harris. Stained And Damaged Rear Lower Corner And Some Page Edges. No Reading Creases. Beautifully Illustrated By Douglas Tait. Mouse Woman Stories From The North West Coast First Nations People. Scarce When Signed.

London: Hamlyn, 1971 This Is A Very Lovely Book. It Is A Retelling Of A Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tale With Illustrations By Jiri Behounek, A Female Czech Artist Born In 1952. It Is Undated. The 1971 Copyright Is Held By Artia Of Prague Which Was The State Art Publishing House At That Time And The Publisher Is Hamlyn. This Was The Year Of Publication, So I Am Presuming That It Is A First. It Appears That The Second Printing In 1975 Is More Commonly Seen. The Book: Near Fine Purple Boards With Coppery Spine Titles And A Pagoda On The Front Panel. Slight Rub To Bottom Corners, But Near Fine With Very Good Quality Paper And No Writing Or Marks. The Dust Jacket Does Have Some Chipping And Rolling At The Upper Edge.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Dutton Childrens Books, 1981 Like new clean crisp and unmarked book in gold blindstamped boards with crimson cloth spine and crimson endpapers in VG dust jacket, unclipped but with several small tears at lower edge. Stated first edition, first printing, full number line. A fable about the appearance of unicorns to the innocent.

London, U.K.: London, 1992 Presume This Is A Reissue Of Folk-Tales. This Edition Was Published In 1992. Although The Folk-Tales Are In English, There Are Proverbs In Oromo And There Is An English-Oromo Glossary Included. Fairly Scholarly Presentation With A Political Slant. Very Good, Clean. The Half Title Page Has Had The Top Inch Removed, Presumably To Remove A Former Owner Name.

Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 1991 Very nice telling of the Russian folk tale. Illustrated by Laszlo Gal. Near Fine glossy pictorial boards in price clipped very good dj, no writing or marks.

Montreal, Quebec: FIDES INC., 1975 A paperback collection of Quebecois legends in the Collection du Goeland Series which includes books by Yves Theriault and Felix Leclerc. In near new condition, but does contain a few pencilled english words in the first half dozen pages. A nicely designed book, illustrated in color by Michele Theoret.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Tor Books, 1989 Thiis The First Printing Of The First 1989 Tor Edition. The Dust Jacket Is Clipped And Age Toning Is Commencing In The Interior, Otherwise, This Is A Like New Copy And May Be Unread. Blue Boards With Gilt Lettering. The Dust Jacket Explains That Many Of Grimm's Fairy Tales Were Initially Written Not For Children But For Adults, As Is The Case With This Tor Fairy Tale Series.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986 Apparent First, In Fair Condition With Fos On Ffep, Rubs And Dings And Scratches To Glossy Pictorial Covers, Rubbed Corners And Spine Top And Bottom. Sewn Binding Is Loose. Some Page Corners Are Bent, Including Those Next To Spine. Enjoyable And Complete Reading Copy Of Jazz Age Snow White.

London: Hamlyn, 1968 Paul Hamlyn Ltd, London 1968. No Dust Jacket This Book Is Grubby But Acceptable On The Outside And Quite Well Preserved On The Inside. Although The Pages Are Starting To Tone A Bit, The Beautiful Illustrations And Colours Of Vladimir Machaj Retain Their Brilliance. I Have Long Been An Admirer Of Hamlyn's Children's Books, Which Were Generally Fairy Tales And Folk Tales With Beautiful Colour Illustrations By Talented Czech Artists From Artia, The State Publishing House In Prague. Hamlyn Was A Billionaire Socialist Who Partnered With The Czech Government With Extremely Good Terms Which "Enabled Him To Use Colour At A Time When It Was Unusual And Expensive For Book Publishers To Do So." A Film Of His Life Would Have Something For Absolutely Everyone, But Until Someone Makes It We Can Enjoy His Books.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Atheneum, 1993 First edition, first printing, full number line, ex school library book which shows no signs of being signed out or read. Very Lightly marked, but protective cover is glued to endpapers. Spot where card pocket was glued is apparent. Unclipped DJ, Ashley Bryan is an award winning African American artist writer. This book illustrates a Nigerian folk tale which accounts for thunder and lightning.

U.K.: J.M Dent & Sons Ltd., 1968 This Is The 1968 Dent Curtain-Raiser First Uk Edition Simultaneously Released In The U.S. By Franklin Watts And Designed And Produced In Czechoslovakia By Artia Of Prague. Czech Text By Kamil Benar And English Translation By Jean Layton, With Beautiful Illustrations By Czech Artist, Ludmilla Jirincova. Very Good + White Linen Boards With Copper Ballet Motif And Sky Blue Top Tint. Gift Inscription On Ffep But No Other Writing Or Marks. A Clean And Square Book In Very Nice Condition. The Dust Jacket Had Numerous Rips And Crumples With Minor Loss. The Tears Have Been Mended With Ph Neutral Rice Paper And A New Mylar Cover Certainly Helps, But Does Not Entirely Hide The Damage. Even So, This Is A Truly Lovely Book.

New York: Duell, Sloan And Pearce, 1964 As The Artist, Janusz Grabianski Is The Star Of This Collection Of Fairy Tales Published By Duel Sloan And Pearce New York 1964, Translation By Charlotte Dixon From The Original Published In Vienna. Copiously Illustrated In Colour And In Brown And White. The Red Book Is In Near Fine Condition In A Clipped Dust Jacket Showing Very Light Wear.

London: Orbis Publishing, 1982 This is a new edition published in 1982 by Orbis of the Hamlyn, 1976, first english edition of the original czech edition by Artia. It is in very good minus condition in a very good minus dust jacket. Fos on inside endpaper, no other marks, clean and crisp interior. Unclipped dust jacket has been cello taped to the dust jacket, and there is a three inch pull on back endpaper where some of the tape was removed. Otherwise this is a lovely book in near fine condition. Good quality paper with superb colour and black and white illustrations by Jaroslav Serych. Tales of ghosts, demons, evil spirits and etc.

Montreal P Q Canada: Editions Heritage Inc., 1977 This Is An Interesting Piece Of Folklore. If You Type His Name Into That Well Known Search Engine, And Then Check Out The Details In Wikipedia, Ti-Jean Is Described As A Folkloristic Character From La Reunion, In The Indian Ocean, But If You Persevere,You Will Find Some Canadian National Film Board Sites Where You Can Watch Some 1953 Films, And The Character You See Is Very Quebec, With A Touch Of Pipi Longstocking. This Book Is Based On Tales Collected By Folklorist Germain Lemieux, Who Is Or Was The Director Of The Centre Franco-Ontarien De Folklore At The University Of Sudbury. Very Good, Light Wear, No Writing Or Marks. May Be Unread. 1983 Printing Of The 1977 Original.

San Francisco: Harr Wagner Publishing, 1931 This Is A Really Lovely Book With Orange Boards And Stylized Pine Cone Endpapers By Harry Howes Hall Who Also Made The Block Printed Illustrations. The Interior Of This Book Is In Very Good Condition, But Unfortunately The Front Board Has Two Stains And There Is Some Ball Point Pen Ink On The Back Board. Former Owner Name Dated August 1932. Solid And Square Boards And Binding. Tumba Of The Title Is A Pine Tree, And A Love Of Nature Pervades This Chapter Book.